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Whereas Humphrey Bogart is always at the top of any list of the Entertainment Industry's most famous actors, very little is known about how he clawed his way to stardom from Broadway to Hollywood. This radical expansion of one of Darwin Porter's pioneering biographies begins with Bogart's origins as the child of wealthy (morphine-addicted) parents in New York City, then examines the scandals, love affairs, breakthrough successes, and failures that...
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On the campus of Yale University, in 1970, an "odd couple," Hillary Rodham and Bill ("Bubba") Clinton, came together at a Mark Rothko exhibit at the Yale Art Museum. Before the end of that rainy afternoon, they had formed an unbreakable bond forged while they rested on the seat of a Henry Moore sculpture. They were from completely different worlds, he, a populist from a poverty-stricken background in Arkansas, she, a former "Goldwater Girl" and conservative...
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Born in Central Europe during the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, three "vonderful vimmen"-Zsa Zsa, Eva, and Magda Gabor-transferred their glittery dreams and gold-digging ambitions to Hollywood. They supplemented America's most Imperial Age with "guts, glamour, and goulash," and reigned there as the Hungarian equivalents of Helen of Troy, Madame du Barry, and Madame de Pompadour.
More effectively than any army, these Bombshells from Budapest...
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One hot summer night in 1945, three young American writers, each an enfant terrible, came together in a stuffy Manhattan apartment for the first time. Each member of this pink triangle, was on the dawn of world fame, Tennessee Williams for A Streetcar Named Desire; Gore Vidal for his notorious homosexual novel, The City and the Pillar, and Truman Capote for Other Voices, Other Rooms, a book that had been marketed with a photograph depicting Capote,...
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The hottest compendium of inter-generational scandal in the history of Hollywood. An overview of exhibitionism, sexuality, and sin as filtered through 85 years of Hollywood indiscretion. As they were unfolding, the events described within this book were, known only within Hollywood's most decadent cliques. All of that has changed with the release of this book.
From bisexual Elvis to cover-ups of murder, from the scandals of Hollywood's Golden Age...
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Blood Moon's newest book examines the hidden sexual secrets of long-time companions, FBI Directors J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson, and their decades-long obsession with the darkest indiscretions of famous Americans.
This is history's first exposure of J. Edgar's obsession with voyeuristic sex and its links to the priorities of his law enforcement agency. It's the most detailed and most shocking insight into J. Edgar Hoover ever published, an unprecedented...
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Hugh Hefner, the Playboy of the Western World, was a visionary publisher, an empire-builder, an avatar of pleasure, and a pajama-clad pipe-smoker with a pre-coital grin.
Although lauded by millions of avid readers, he was denounced by feminists for exploiting women, and defined as "the father of sex addiction," "a huckster," "a lecherous low-brow feeder of our vices," "a misogynist," and, near the end of his life, "a symbol of priapic senility."
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"God put me on this earth to raise hell!" Thus, spoke the charismatic Irish actor, Peter O'Toole, who shot to international stardom in 1962 for his Oscar-nominated performance in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia. In that four-hour epic, he played the heroic but flamboyantly doomed T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"). After such a worldwide success, O'Toole announced, "I've arrived. Ignore me at your peril!"
He would go on to be nominated for seven...
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That ongoing, barely under control drama known as Marlon Brando-Hollywood's Ultimate Bad Boy, Megastar, and Sexual Outlaw-with a special focus on his early rise to fame and his social and sexual associations with the A-list legends of the 40s, 50s, and 60s. Brando Unzipped is the definitive gossip guide to the late, great actor's life.
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Kirk Douglas was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, his father a collector and seller of rags. After service in the Navy during World War II, he moved to Hollywood, oozing masculinity and charm. Conquering Tinseltown and bedding its leading ladies, he became the personification of the American dream, moving from obscurity and (literally) rags to riches and major-league fame.
En route to his status as a myth and legend, his performances reflected...
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From 1951 through 1956, I Love Lucy was the most-watched show in television. Its launch was as rocky as the marriage of the real-life show-biz pros who crafted it.
After their divorce in 1960, Lucille Ball appraised Desi Arnaz, her former husband: "He's like Jekyll and Hyde. He drinks and gambles, he's awash in broads and booze, and that gay actor, Cesar Romero, is his devoted slave. Love?" she asked. "I was always falling in love with the wrong man....
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As an insight into the American experience of celebrity death on the 50th anniversary of the murder of the Love Goddess, biographer Darwin Porter has compiled, after decades of research, an intriguing roundup of the conspiracies and dark secrets behind Hollywood's most notorious mystery: Who Killed Marilyn?
This relentless page-turner, a lip-smacking and juicy read, examines the mass hysteria that followed in the wake of Marilyn's assassination....
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God had a talent for creating exceptional women-Helen of Troy and Cleopatra come to mind. So does Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, who lives again in this "warts-and-all" portrait. It's being released on the 20th anniversary of the tragic death, in 1994, of the icon, who changed America's beliefs about what a woman of style, power, and influence could accomplish "behind the throne" of men, whose careers changed the course of history.
During her...
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From famed celebrity biographer Darwin Porter, this is the most honest and journalistically important biography of Michael Jackson ever published, with a roster of literary reviews, that outnumber and outclass any other MJ bio on the market. After its original release in 2007, it was widely reviewed, as the most, thorough and comprehensive biography of the superstar published anytime during the previous 15-years. Following the superstar's death in...
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In the interim since Rock Hudson's tragic death as one of the early (and perhaps the most shocking, based on his celebrity) victims of AIDS, his legend has evolved into a nationwide cult. Yet despite his post-mortem fame, his salaciously poignant story has never been, told. Until now.
Loaded with details never set into print before, this unvarnished, uncensored overview of Rock Hudson's scandal-soaked rise to fame and subsequent fall from grace,...
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This is the first post-mortem, unauthorized insight into Merv Griffin, a failed singer and unsuccessful actor who unexpectedly rewrote the rules of America's broadcasting industry. He became the richest man in TV, befriended everyone in media who mattered, bought a casino, and maintained a secret life as America's most famously closeted homosexual. From a controversial writer whose previous work has virtually re-defined the art of the celebrity biography,...
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Before she died, Elizabeth Taylor claimed that previous biographers had revealed "only half of my story, but I can't tell the other half because I'd get sued." In response to that challenge, Blood Moon presents history's most comprehensive compilation of the unpublished, until now, secrets of Dame Elizabeth. With photos, this meaty and startling book offers a juicy feast of until, now untold tales about the 20th-century's most deadline-generating...
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America's most enduring and legendary symbol of young rebellion, James Dean continues into the 21st Century to capture the imagination of the world. In recognition of his enduring appeal as Hollywood's most visible symbol of unrequited male rage, bars from California to Nigeria and Patagonia are, named in his honor.
Dean, a strikingly handsome heartthrob, is a study in contrasts: Tough but tender; brutal at times, but remarkably sensitive; a reckless...
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In the 1970s and '80s, Burt Reynolds represented a new breed of movie star: Macho, rebellious, and charming, and with a "loud and proud" footprint in country-western, rural America, he was a good old Southern boy who made hearts throb and audiences laugh. A former football hero, he was a guy you might have shared some jokes with in a redneck bar. For five years, both in terms of earnings and popularity, he was the number one box office star in the...
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The tempestuous, scandalous love affair of the 20th century's Romeo and Juliet was second in fame and notoriety only to that of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and by many accounts, even more corrupt. Even though the spotlight shone on this famous pair throughout most of their tabloid-fueled careers, much of what went on behind the velvet curtain remained hidden from view until the publication of this ground-breaking biography. For the first time,...
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